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True Ghost Stories: Poltergeist Activity in a Haunted New York City Hotel
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This is one of the original Tell Me A Ghost Story calls from the early days of the show. Short, raw, and exactly where it all started. This call was later incorporated into a longer compilation episode with full host commentary if you want the complete experience.
Hey it's Michelle, and this early episode belongs entirely to Artemis, who called in with a true ghost story about what happened when he checked into a New York City hotel looking for a break from everyday life and found himself sharing the building with something that had no interest in letting him rest.
Artemis was not looking for a paranormal experience. He was looking for a quiet room, a comfortable bed, and a few days away from everything. What he got instead was a hotel full of dead people who apparently had not received the memo that he was there to relax.
The activity Artemis experienced falls squarely into the category of poltergeist phenomena, the specific and well documented class of paranormal activity characterized by objects moving, sounds with no physical source, and a general sense that something in the environment is actively and deliberately making itself known. Poltergeist cases are among the most studied in paranormal research precisely because they tend to leave physical evidence and multiple witnesses, and what Artemis encountered in her New York City hotel room had both.
New York City has one of the richest and most layered paranormal histories of any city in the world, which makes sense when you consider how many people have lived and died within its geography over four centuries of documented history. Hotels in particular tend to accumulate that history in concentrated form. People arrive. People leave. Not always in the order you would expect.
Artemis went looking for a break. He found a real ghost encounter instead. This is where Tell Me A Ghost Story began.
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Theme music is Sexy Sax by Cool Cascade.
Production by Newman Media.